Junius F. Wells reports that Joseph went to a school on Dewey Hill.
Junius F. Wells, "The Smith Family in Vermont," in Evelyn M. Wood Lovejoy, History of Royalton, Vermont with Family Genealogists, 1769-1911, Part 2 (Burlington, Vermont: Free Press Printing Company, 1911), 646
During this period, Joseph, Senior, worked on the farm summers, and taught school part of the time winters. His son Joseph attended the school on Dewey Hill, and was taught his letters by Dea[con] Jonathan Kinney, the schoolmaster there.